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Can computer games improve driving?Recent web news articles have highlighted computer games as helping to improve driving ... what ?!?
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Posted At 10/10/2008 Lifecycle  |
Take a peek at http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=76517
Does anyone believe that computer games can help improve driving? I guess if your playing Gran Tourismo, Burnout or GTA4, you might learn all about a good racing line, how best to crash (Most spectacularly) and steel cars? Joking aside, does simulation help or does it desensitize you people to the reality (and sometimes potential horror) of poor driving? |
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Subject: Can computer games improve driving?
Posted At: 10/10/2008 13:18:11
Take a peek at http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=76517
Does anyone believe that computer games can help improve driving? I guess if your playing Gran Tourismo, Burnout or GTA4, you might learn all about a good racing line, how best to crash (Most spectacularly) and steel cars? Joking aside, does simulation help or does it desensitize you people to the reality (and sometimes potential horror) of poor driving? |
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Panda
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Posted At: 13/10/2008 11:35:47
No as there is no realism. If you crash you just continue
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TheBirdman
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Posted At: 13/11/2008 10:22:50
I agree with Panda. My son thinks he's the greatest driver in the world because he can beat me...easily...at any driving game he has, but there is no risk, no realism. You can have a spectacular crash and just start again.
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BIG WHEEL
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Posted At: 03/05/2009 17:47:17
well what a good driver needs is a good road sense.Haveing the ability to read the road and the conditions.Then have be able to adapt the driveing style to suit.Any body can drive fast and show a complete disregard for other road users.just like the computer games promote.On the other hand has anybody had to take the hazard perception test used by the DVLA lately.
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1mad_bob
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Posted At: 07/05/2009 17:10:05
computer 'GAMES' will never help us improve our driving, thats why they are called GAMES. its way of having fun and pushing the boundaries, somerthing we are NOT suposed to be doing if we are on the road.. unless you got sum1 to impress lol
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Supervan
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Posted At: 08/05/2009 12:31:01
I heard it helps develop hand-eye coordination, which could be argued helps improve your driving or any other activity.
I remember reports saying that Lewis Hamilton, I think, practised some circuits on an F1 computer game. |
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